Tag-fastener.



A. D. MORSE.

TAG FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30. 1911.

1,271,743. Patented July 9,1918.

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ANDREW D. MORSE, OF FRAMINGI-IAM, MASSACHUSETTS,

ASSIGNOR T0 DENNISON IEANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF BOSTON, IvIASSACI-IUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSAGZ-IUSETTS.

TAG-FASTENER.

Application filed June 30, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ANDREW D. Monsn, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Framingham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tag-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification. 1

This invention relates to tag fasteners of the general type shown in United States patent to lVadsworth No. 938,446, dated October 26, 1909, peculiarly adapted for use in attaching tags to bags, sacks and merchandise generally commonly shipped in a wrapping or covering of burlap or like material.

In attaching fasteners of this general class to a bag or other covering of burlap or the like, the piercing arm is thrust into the material and the fastener is then turned and pulled sharply downward causing the hooked material holding end to pierce and engage the material. It is one of the objects of this invention to provide means whereby the material is guided and held in the path of the hooked end so that when the fastener is pulled downward, said hooked end will readily and surely pierce and grip the material.

A further object of the invention is to eliminate or render negligible the likelihood of injury resultant upon the sharp piercing points heretofore used in fasteners of this general type which, being commonly in whole or in part concealed in the material, are not readily observed by handlers of the goods and when negligently or unintentionally grasped inflict painful and often serious wounds.

Referring to the drawings which illustrate certain embodiments of my invention,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fastener embodying my invention with a tag strung thereon;

F'g. 2 is an enlarged front elevation of the fastener;

Fig. 3 is an edge view thereof;

Figs. 4 to 8 inclusive are perspective views showing the method of attaching the fastener to the material; and

Fig. 9 is an enlarged front elevation of a modified form.

My improved fastener is made as usual of a single piece of wire bent to form a loop narrower at the ends than at the middle so that said loop in the preferred form shown is substantially diamond shaped. One end Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1918.

Serial No. 177,940.

of the wire extends beyond the loop to form a piercing arm which has an offset portion A. The opposite end of the wire is reversed to form a material holding hook, said reversed end portion B overlying the piercing arm with its point resting adjacent to said offset A.

In attaching the fastener to the material, the piercing arm A is inserted into the material as shown in Fig. 4- and then thrust upward until the entire piercing arm and preferably its offset A, are embedded in the material as shown in Fig. 5. The fastener is then turned to the left as viewed in said Figs. 4: and 5, whereupon the fastener and the material assume the position shown in Figs. 6 and 7 the former figure showing the front of the fastener and material and the latter the back.

It will be clear by reference to Figs. 6 and 7 that by the turn of the fastener to the left from the position shown in Fig. 5, the offset A guides the material and holds it directly in the path of the reversed end B so that when the fastener is pulled down from the position shown in Figs. 6 and 7 to its attached position shown in Fig. 8, said reversed end passes surely and readily through the material which is thus held over its piercing end insuring the attachment of the fastener and facilitating rapidity of attachment.

To eliminate likelihood of injury in handling the goods to which the fastener is attached, the points of both the piercing arm A and the reversed hooked end B are preferably swaged and rounded as shown in Figs. 1 to 8, inclusive. Experience has demonstrated that in the attachment of these fasteners to practically all materials for which they are intended, the blunt, carefully rounded point will. pierce and pass through the material sufficiently readily, especially when the offset A is employed to hold the material directly in the path of the hooked end B, and these blunt points effectively eliminate danger of injur to the user even though they be unintentionally or negligently grasped.

If it is desired for reasons of economy of manufacture or because of use upon particular materials not readily pierced, to retain the usual sharp point upon the hooked end B as shown in F ig. 9, this may safely be done; for as said sharp point lies adjacent to the offset A, said offset provides a guard which effectively eliminates likelihood of accidental injury from said point.

I claim:

1. A wire fastener shaped in the form of a loop narrower at the ends than at the middle, one end of said Wire being reversed to form a hook and the other end extending beyond the loop to form a piercing arm, said reversed end portion overlying the said piercing arm, and said piercing arm shaped to hold be material in the path of said reversed end portion while said fastener is being applied to the material.

2. A wire fastener shaped in the form of a loop narrower at the ends than at the middle, one end of said wire being reversed to form a hook and the other end extending beyond the loop to form a piercing arm, said reversed end portion overlying the said piercing arm, and said arm having a shoulder at the point of said reversed end portion.

3. A wire fastener shaped in the form of a loop narrower at the ends than at the middle, one end of said wire being reversed to form a hook and the other end extending beyond theloop to form a piercing arm, said reversed end portion overlying the said piercing arm, and said piercing. arm having an offset to hold the material in the path of said reversed end portion and to serve as a guard for the point thereof.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for 4. A wire fastener shaped in the form of a loop narrower at the ends than at the middle, one end of said wire being reversed to form a hook and the other end eXtending beyond the loop to form a piercing arm having an offset, said reversed end portion overlying said piercing arm and the ends of said reversed end being blunt.

5. A. wire fastener shaped in the form of 40 a loop narrower at the ends than at the middle, one end of said wire being reversed to form a hook and the other end extending beyond the loop to form a piercing arm, the

lying in substantially the same plane, the piercing arm being ofiset, and the shoulder of the offset arm being in close proximity to the end of the reversed hook.

6. A fastener made of wire bent to form so an elongate loop, one end of said wire being reversed to form a hook and the other end extending along the reversed end and thence beyond the loop to form a piercing arm, the latter end being offset at the tip of the 55 former end so as to form a shoulder adapted to position material pierced by said arm in line with said tip.

Signed by me at Framingham, Mass, this 27th day of June, 1917.

ANDREW D. MORSE.

body of the loop and the reversed hook end five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

